Fat Mike and Spike Slawson participated in an interview with a German magazine after performing at the Ruhrpott Rodeo 2009 in Hünxe with Me First and The Gimme Gimmes. Both Spike and Mike talked about the wonderful experience of being booed by 35,000 people, being a prison punk, Paris Hilton, racist soul music and who should own Bavaria. It's definitely NSFW.

Holy shit! VGS doing "I Wanna Be Like You!" I have to find this. I'm not too interested in the other tracks. Disney is rife with songs that are Gimme worthy. Can you imagine their cover of "Bear Necessities?" Or "A Whole New World." It would be great.

the album always popped up on ebay when i searched the japanese bands but i just checked the tracklist for the first time today. maybe because its a japanese import is why no one knows it, but reel big fish etc this has slipped under the radar big style

Goddamnit, I just lost the punk rock equivalent of "the game" in which you try to forget that the Fallout Boy cover of Save Your Generation ever existed... and now I just lost THE game... I hate you so much.

I caught the utters for the first time in years opening for the kicks in boston this last pattys day. I walked in, my girlfriend asked if the utters were playing yet, I looked for Spike and just saw this skinny guy on bass so I said "not yet." I was wrong by the way.

Seriously though, this is fucked up. How could you throw away someone's life for something they did at 12? I did a lot of stupid shit at twelve, nothing as stupid as murdering someone, but still. Their brain is still developing.

At 12 I was listening to Fugazi and Tom Waits, reading the works of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, and swimming 16 hours a week while maintaining a high average in school. No excuses. To me, a 12 year old kid is practically an adult. Plus, the article said that this douche already has a long rep sheet. He won't be reformed.

Sorry, I usually like you, but this is absurd. Just because somebody doesn't come from a privileged background doesn't make it ok to murder and be treated w/ like they stole a car. It's MURDER. They don't deserve a second chance, I don't care how young/poor/whatever they are.

Fucking capitalists. You're NEVER going to stop rape, murder, and theft until you stop capital. Punishment does dick. Punishment will never stop the crimes. I know it's more difficult to find out why they kill and stop that instead of just killing them, but you're never going to stop murders unless you do this.

Ending capitalist social relations is probably not going to stop murder and rape in a single stroke. Overthrowing class society is only the beginning of a truly human world. You are very right about the barbarism of the "blood price" but you are very wrong to think its culimination is as an issue of morality.

The new world is birthed in the blood of the old and this is the crucible where we are fired and tempered for our historic task.

I'm not pro-blood, even for the sake of revolution, but you're completely right about class society only being responsible for a portion of crime. Granted, a lot of crime is because of class society, so it's not a bad point to make. It's just not the be-all and end-all.

you don't think a 13 year old deserves a second chance? he's fucking thirteen! not exactly the age of wisdom!

it's more absurd for someone who obviously had a fairly good upbringing to say ~well i turned out AWESOME why can't everyone else~? not everyone has the same opportunities or is raised in the same environment. sometimes people DON'T turn out awesome.